Ever wonder what happens when you stick an ice cream cone on top of cupcake batter and B-A-K-E it?
Some thing magical!
And uber cute, and totally perfect for summer. Like…an unmeltable ice cream cone.
You can wear white all you want with these.
There is no drippy, stainy, ruinyoursummer mess going on. And if you show up with these tomorrow at your Fourth of July party you are gonna be the one everyone wants to hang around.
Did I mention these cupcones/conecups/cakecones/conecakes can also be used for carrying your sparklers around so that you don’t burn your fingers. Multi-purpose. It’s the new thing.
Can I tell you something though.
I almost wanted to eat these cupcake cones upside down. Sounds crazy right? Well, I like to always “save the best bite for last”. I’ll stare at food for five minutes, move things around with my fork, position all ingredients just right, so that the final bite that goes in my mouth is the absolute BEST bite I could end with.
And the best bite of these cone heads is the top. Frosting and sprinkles. That’s my new life motto. With frostings and sprinkles you can achieve anything.
But I didn’t want people to think I’m crazy by eating my cupcake cone butt first.
Not too mention that would kill the whole part I told you about earlier where this treat is not a hot summer mess. Upside down cone means baby blue hands. Not pretty.
Happy Birthday America!
May we be forever blessed, continue to enjoy the freedom to eat cupcake cones and fried chicken, celebrate our independence, love our differences, come to an agreement over healthcare [sorry…didn’t mean to go there], and always bleed red, white, and blue.
Firework Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes
makes 12 cuppy cone cakes
1 box white cake mix [with ingredients listed to make cake]
12 sugar cones
1 tub Duncan Hines Frosting Creations
1 packet Duncan Hines Cotton Candy frosting flavor packet
1/3 cup red sprinkles
Preheat oven to 350. Line a cupcake tin with cupcake liners.
Mix cake batter according to package directions. Pour batter in to cupcake liners, filling 2/3 of the way full. Take your cupcake cone and place it upside down on top of the batter, pressing the cone lightly down in the batter so the cone stands up straight.
Bake cupcakes for 18-20 minutes or until cupcakes are puffed up and a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in to the side. [10 minutes in to baking I opened the oven and tapped my cones lightly back down in to the batter to make them a little more straight. They’re still gonna come out a little lopsided, but that’s ok. They’ll stand perfectly fine.]
Remove cupcakes from oven and let cupcakes cool completely.
When cupcakes are completely cooled, remove cupcake liner. Mix the cotton candy flavor pack in to the frosting tub. Pour sprinkles in to shallow bowl. Frost the cupcakes with and dunk the top in the sprinkles. Stand up-right so that cupcakes now resemble and ice cream cone. Continue with the rest of the cupcake cones. Then add in the candles and celebrate!
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Ahh those are SO cute!! I’m amazed the wafer cones didn’t burn while baking, magical! Love these
I cannot tell you how much I wish I didn’t have class tonight until 9 PM, would totally be making these after work if I didn’t!
Theses are so adorable! I wish I had an excuse to make cupcakes so I could make these – it’s just SO hard to have a dozen of these laying around with just the bf and I!
Ummmm I love this idea! SO cute and less mess with the cone! Might have to whip these up for a cookout tomorrow!
I’ve been dying to see these ever since I saw you making them on instagram, SO cute!!
so cute! that cotton candy icing is UH MAZE ING!
So, foodbuzz is ONCE AGAIN NOT WORKING and I’m not getting anything in my inbox (NOT happy about this). In other words, I keep missing your posts! These are so adorable, I can’t stand it. So I won’t stand it. I’ll eat it.
I love these! Great idea!
I have made these for many yrs…..but I put the batter in the cone and then bake it. They stand up nicely in muffin tins in the oven….
That’s a great idea!
Plus you get cake all the way to the bottom! Means that last bite is still delicious!
These are the cutest cones in the hisory of cones
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Absolutely love it! I wish I had this for yesterday but I certainly see it in my near future.
These are so fun! What a great idea!
So cute Steph, great idea!
These are adorable! Perfect for summer BBQ’s!
These are adorable Steph!!!! I LOVE THEM and I’m totally jealous I didn’t do this first!
Hi, I also make a version of these. I bake the cupcake mixture inside the cone and then pipe icing on top, add some sprinkles and a piece of flake and they look like a soft serve ice cream, the kids love them.
Fantastic idea, this is genius! Happy I found this pic on pinterest!
Any recommendations for traveling with these when they’re already decorated?
Becky, I actually put them in a cake carrier with the frosted tops down. Because they had the glitter sprinkles on top it actually worked out quite well!
THANK YOU for your great ideas. It seems like every time I save something on Pinterest it’s with our ideas. THANK YOU! Keep them coming….
We made these for the 4th, the kiddo’s love that cotton candy frosting and the color was perfect. The only change I made was to use red pop rocks in place of sprinkles so they were “fire cracker” cupcakes!
Yes Judy that is how I’ve made them, too. This method leaves a gaping hole in the center of the cone. I like the old way much better.
I found that it was easier for me to just fill the ice cream cones with the batter. I did try making them both ways. When I put the cone on top of the batter they were not as neat looked a little sloppy. Although both are great ideas.
I have a question, do the bottom of the cones burn in the oven? I tried this a different way and the bottom of the cones were black!
how well do these really stand? I would think that since there is no batter in the bottom of the cone that they would be top heavy and fall over very easy.
I fill and then bake also. Kids love them…. bottoms didnt burn when I’ve done them. There are also silicone cone shaped molds u can use. When i brought them to my son party at the park I placed them side by side in a box tall enough so I could lay tinfoil on top. Worked good. He had a Thomas the Train cake and we spelt his name out on a few cones and made them look like puffs of smoke coming from the smoke stake.
Joy also sells a carrier which is usually advertised on the side of their boxes.
I can’t believe I’m not the only person alive who eats so methodically to make sure the last bite is the absolute best!
I make them Too. I stand the cone upright in cupcake pan & FULL cone 2/3. Comes out great and you have cake in the bottom of cone too…
Ive made them with putting the cake batter inside the cone also but i usually cover the bottom half of cone in foil, wrapping it around, so not touching bottom of cupcake pan and they never have turned black. And it also keeps them stable while baking. Hope it works for you next time you try this.
This is great! My son has a birthday in June. Theme is “monsters”, going to try to make Monster Cuppy Cone Cakes! Thanks for the super idea!
Cute, cute, cute cupcakes! Love the ice cream cone idea.
I laughed out loud when I read about the last bite thing. Many years ago when my husband and I were first married he made the mistake of scooping my “last best bite” from my plate. I was so angry and we had our first real married fight. Looking back I must have sounded like a nut, but 20 years later, he still remembers how dangerous it is to interfere with that
last carefully calculated final mouthful lol
wouldn’t you have to poke a hole in the cones so the the air has somewhere to go?
Nope, no holes in the cones or the batter will come out the tops
I actually poor the batter into the cone and bake that way! The cake is all the way to the bottom of the cone that way and so yummy!
I like this idea the only reason is because the one time i made these and poured the batter in the cones were mushy and that was a turn off for . Thanks for sharing this idea
My mother had made these for years and I was lucky enough to learn early myself, there was not an event at my kids school that did not include my ice cream cone cupcakes and was always happy when the children and parents realized they were cupcakes! One suggestion: Put the cake batter in standing cones 3/4 of the way full, when they bake the tops will bake into a ball such as an ice cream scoop, also I like to use a lot of different colored cones, batter, and frosting. Ex: I buy the cones that are colored, use strawberry batter and frosting in the pink cones, chocolate in the brown and vanilla in the yellow ones. Find a cake box big enough and a talented artist to make the box look like a Neopolitan Ice cream container arrange the cupcake cones and it is a hit at parties!
I LOVE YOU! I tried multiple times to make cupcake cones and they would never remain standing drying baking. I never thought to turn the cone upside down and cook the batter that way! I always felt like a loser when they would fall over and make a huge mess. Thank you, thank you, thank you. LOL Iam going to bake some for the twins college graduation party in 2weeks. They always laughed they finally saw something I couldn’t do! Now thanks to you I can get t,hem! LOL
Awe, thanks!!! I just found this way to be so much easier
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